Charlotte Brontë

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Standard Name: Brontë, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Brontë
Married Name: Mrs Arthur Bell Nicholls
Pseudonym: Currer Bell
Used Form: Charlotte Bronte
CB 's five novels, with their passionate explorations of the dilemmas facing nineteenth-century middle-class English women, have made her perhaps the most loved, imitated, resisted, and hotly debated novelist of the Victorian period.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley in the Athenæum called this one of the best...
Literary responses Jean Rhys
Later critics speak of the book as her masterpiece, and as a work of genius, praising its ground-breaking colonial and canonical critique. Coral Ann Howells comments that Wide Sargasso Sea has not only taken up...
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
Critic Bob Wake discusses Highsmith's complex point-of-view techniques—a literary style begun by Henry James —and her modelling The Talented Mr Ripley on his novel The Ambassadors (1903). He notes her humorous plays on the James...
Literary responses Anne Brontë
After AB 's death, Charlotte considered her sister's novelhardly . . . desirable to preserve and the subject matter an entire mistake.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
274
She therefore concurred with her publisher's plan to reprint not this...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Third, Ward and Downey, 1896.
104
of Ellen Middleton to its author's own conversion to Catholicism in 1846, two years after its publication. The Catholic World, for instance...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
Nathalie was praised by JK 's fellow novelist Katharine S. Macquoid .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Charlotte Brontë , meanwhile, became an avowed admirer of the novel. On 21 January 1851 she wrote JK : Do not expect me...
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating.
qtd. in
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28.
214
An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
Literary responses Marjorie Bowen
Although MB was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her...
Literary responses Olive Schreiner
The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent , who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
The novel prompted a complimentary letter on 7 November 1849 from Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë ) saying that in it he tasted a new and keen pleasure, and experienced a genuine benefit. In his...
Literary responses Amelia B. Edwards
John Cordy Jeaffreson paid this novel the compliment of a three-column Athenæum review. He predicted eventual success as a novelist for its author, even though he found grave faults in her present production. ABE ...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
This novel was not as successful as JK 's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë confided to William Smith Williams , I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I...
Literary responses Fredrika Bremer
Elizabeth Gaskell reported that Charlotte Brontë saw a resemblance (as Gaskell herself did not) between Fransiska and Jane Eyre.
Asmundsson, Doris R. Fredrika Bremer in England. Columbia University, 1964.
102
 The Athenæum was troubled that Bruno should be guilty of so much evil and still...
Literary responses Anne Mozley
George Eliot not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's expressly so that it...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
Charlotte Brontë told Williams that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful.
Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols.
III: 326
Though pleased with the work as a whole...

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